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Rhode Island Report on the Judiciary 1974 [PDF]

, 1974
The report is divided into two sections. Part I reviews the structure and organization of the state courts. To some of you this review may seem superfluous.

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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Slaves out of context: domestic slavery and the Anglo-Indian family, c. 1780–1830 [PDF]

, 2009
This paper explores the place of domestic slaves in British families resident in India, c. 1780–1830, and the ways in which the presence of slaves within these Anglo-Indian households challenged British understandings of slavery as a practice.
Finn, Margot C.
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Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: How the New Hampshire Probate Court Has Strengthened the Power of the Attorney General in Charitable Trust Suits [PDF]

, 2019
As Americans increasingly use estate planning tools to provide for their favorite charities, the charitable trust is an important instrument that fits uniquely into general trust law.
Spilios, Angelina M.
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Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Of all the reforms to parole in England and Wales that were introduced after the furore surrounding the 2017 decision to direct the release of the so‐called ‘Black cab rapist’, John Worboys, perhaps the most important was the creation in 2019 of a reconsideration mechanism which obliges the Parole Board (on application) to take a second look at ...
Stephen Shute
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The Sky's the Limit? SkyKick v Sky and Speculative Trade Mark Registration

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Trade marks are registered for specific products, which defines the scope of their exclusive legal monopoly. To benefit from a broad scope, applicants increasingly overclaim. They apply for categories of products with no intention to use the mark on them in trade.
Dev S. Gangjee
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Future Interests [PDF]

, 1966
I denna rapport utreds olika metoder för att kunna reglera vattennivån i vattenkraftverket Avesta Lillfors i Dalarna. Två kraftverk ligger endast 900 m uppströms och detta gör att svarstiderna blir korta och regleringen blir lätt nervös.
Sparks, Bertel M.
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